Percent not reported where cases too few to provide meaningful comparison.Table 1: Current and 5 YearAverage Prison Sentence Comparison

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Judge

District

Compared To District

U.S.

Compared To U.S.

Latest Fiscal Year

60.0

99.7

-

91.1

-

Previous Fiscal Year

120.0

120.2

-

101.8

-

Past 5 Years

98.4

123.6

-20.4%

102.5

-4.0%

Percent not reported where cases too few to provide meaningful comparison.Table 1: Current and 5 YearAverage Prison Sentence Comparison

For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited
to Judge Mary A. McLaughlin in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the
average prison sentence was 60.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms with a lead charge of "21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A".
During the current fiscal year, Judge Mary A. McLaughlin has
sentenced one defendant
compared with one defendant during the twelve months
of the previous fiscal year.

Over the last five years, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants
that were credited to Judge McLaughlin was 98.4 months. This was
20.4% lower than the 123.6 months typical
in Pennsylvania East and 4.0% lower than
the 102.5 months average prison sentence for the nation.
Judge Mary A. McLaughlin sentenced 11 defendants during the past five years.

(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences
statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is
important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled,
available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)

Figure 1: Five Year Comparison of Average Prison Sentencein Months

Figure 1 compares Judge McLaughlin's numbers to those for judges in this district and
in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.

During the last five years there were 25 other judges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania with information
on convictions during that period.
Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges
ranged from 36.0 months to 307.7 months, putting Judge McLaughlin's average prison sentence
of 98.4 months at the lower end of the range.
The average prison sentence
for the whole Eastern District of Pennsylvania during that time was 123.6 months.

Figure 2: Detailed Comparison among Judges for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Professional Biography

Born 1946 in Philadelphia, PA

Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 13, 2000, to a seat vacated by Marvin Katz; Confirmed by the Senate on May 24, 2000, and received commission on May 31, 2000.

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Stanley Brotman, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1976-1977Private practice, 1977-1980Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia, 1980-1984Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1984-1986Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986-2000Adjunct professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1988Adjunct professor, Rutgers University School of Law, 1989Chief counsel, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 1995

Program Areas of Cases Handled

Cases disposed of by Judge Mary A. McLaughlin for the past five years fell into a number
of broad categories. The lead category for these cases was Weapons accounting for 72.7% of cases.

Other major categories with substantial numbers of cases that were disposed
by Judge Mary A. McLaughlin over the past five years were:
Narcotics/Drugs (27.3%).